List of Famous people born in Taiwan Province, Taiwan

Weng Li-you

First Name Weng
Last Name Li-you
Born on May 9, 1975 (age 50)

Weng Li-you, known as Only You, is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer.

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Chan Ya-wen

詹淑貞
First Name Chan
Last Name Ya-wen
Born on March 2, 1967 (age 59)

Chan Ya-wen is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer, lyricist, and composer. She won the 2008 Golden Melody Award for Best Dialect Female Artist.

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Wu Maw-kuen

First Name Wu
Last Name Maw-kuen
Born on December 6, 1949 (age 76)

Maw-Kuen Wu is a Taiwanese physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at University of Alabama (Huntsville), Columbia University, and National Tsing Hua University, the Director of the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica, the president of the National Dong Hwa University, and is currently a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica.

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Yuan T. Lee

First Name Yuan
Last Name Lee
Born on November 19, 1936 (age 89)

Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".

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Chang Chen-yue

First Name Chang
Last Name Chen-yue
Born on May 2, 1974 (age 51)

Chang Chen-yue, also known as A-Yue and by his Amis name Ayal Komod, is an aboriginal Taiwanese rock and Hip-Hop musician, songwriter, singer and guitarist, and the frontman of his band, Free Night, also known as Free9. He is most widely known for his 1998 hit song "Ai Wo Bie Zou". His 2013 album I am Ayal Komod was awarded the Best Album Award during the 25th Golden Melody Awards.

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Perng Fai-nan

First Name Perng
Born on January 2, 1939 (age 87)

Perng Fai-nan is a Taiwanese economist. He served as the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 25 February 1998 to 26 February 2018, the longest serving governor in the bank's history. Perng held the distinction as "Best Central Banker in the world" for 14 years per Global Finance.

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Lin Zi-miao

First Name Lin
Last Name Zi-miao
Born on January 28, 1952 (age 74)

Lin Zi-miao is a Taiwanese politician. She is the Magistrate of Yilan County since 25 December 2018.

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Claire Wang

First Name Claire
Last Name Wang
Born on April 26, 1979 (age 46)

Claire Wang is a Taiwanese politician. Following the murder of her daughter in March 2016, Wang was named to the Presidential Office Organizing Committee for National Conferences on Judicial Reforms. She subsequently joined the New Power Party and won a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2020.

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Shao-Ching Chiang

Shao-Ching Chiang is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has represented the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in international competitions.

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Chen Shu-chu

First Name Chen
Last Name Shu-chu
Born on November 30, 1950 (age 75)

Chen Shu-chu is a vegetable vendor and philanthropist from Taitung County, Taiwan. She gives generously with her modest incomes. She said "Money serves its purpose only when it is used for those who need it and always be happy when she helped others." She was selected as one of the Time 100 for year 2010 in the Heroes category. She is also one of the 48 heroes of Philanthropy by Forbes Asia. Reader's Digest also honors her as the winner of 2010 Asian of the year. In 2012, she also was selected as one of the Ramon Magsaysay Award winners. In 2018, 278986 Chenshuchu was named for her.

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